The variable q f has witnessed many investigations in the Arab world. The present comparative study tends to be a more challenging one for it approaches studying the same linguistic variable in two divergent speech communities: Amman in the Levant and Tlemcen in the Maghreb. The nucleus of the research concentrates on the dialectal realizations of (q) including the urban ʔ] and the rural g]. In addition to our focus on the process of dialect...